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FOOD SHOPPING: Sainsburys, a much larger supermarket and more expensive (but more choice) in the Westfield Centre in the centre of town Farm Foods, on Albert Street near HSBC Bank, selling frozen foods, bread and cheap drinks Indoor Market, in the Guildhall opposite the Assembly Rooms, selling lots of fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, clothes and other goods. CLOTHES AND GENERAL ITEMS: Wilkinsons, just outside the Westfield Centre on London Road, for cheap household items such as kitchen equipment and bedding plus much more Argos, (next to Wilkinsons) also for cheap household items and jewellery and much more – choose from the catalogue in the store, pay for your items at the pay desk and wait for your items at the customer collection desk Matalan, also close to Wilkinsons and Argos, for cheap clothes, jewellery and household items. You need to register as a customer (which is free) and you will be given a Matalan card to use on future visits. Primark, on the Cornmar...

Three landmark building, the clock tower in front the the co-operative store, the water tower, and the Mackworth castle. Mackworth This is a community website, providing local services you will need, such as builders, garden services, health and beauty, pets and vets, plasterers, and business services. You can promote your business free with mackworthonline.

DERBY LIONS CLUB CHRISTMAS APPEAL 2010 Supported by the Derby Evening Telegraph Dear Parent, Your Child's school has given us permission to ask you to support our Annual Christmas Appeal for the Needy and Lonely. May we kindly ask you to send a Tin of Food or a Packet of Non-perishable Food or Drink that will be included in our Parcels which will be distributed week commencing 6th December. Your Children's School will be mentioned in the Derby Evening Telegraph and we extend our thanks for your anticipated support. Dave Bower Information Helpline Derby Lions' President Sue 512420 Malcolm 559954

Has derby hat anything to do with Derby city? Local people pronounce Derby as [da:rbee] instead of [derby] , once I said that, the Indian call centre man corrected me: "Oh, you are in derby!" This hat was designed for Edward Coke, the younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Leicester. Leicester is very close to Derby, I wonder that the US people just mixed up these two cities.

Join WildDerby and partners on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th June to help their 24-hour BioBLitz survey of wildlife on Markeaton Park. We need to find all the wildflowers, trees, bugs, birds and bats we can. There will be a programme of activities organised, such as guided walks, lake dipping, bug hunts, night walks and dawn chorus. You don't need to be an expert to help! On Sunday 6th June the Springwatch Wild Day Out will take place between 10 am and 5 pm. There will be plenty of wildlife things to do, make and enjoy at this free, WildDerby family fun event. Over the 24 hours, WildDerby will be helped by many wildlife experts, such as OPAL (The Open Air Laboratories Network), Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Entomological Society (DaNES), Friends of Markeaton Park, University of Derby, National Trust (East Midlands), Natural England and many more. Website link www.derby.gov.uk/wildderby Contact For more information contact WildDerby on 01332 2550...

Derby does not spring to mind as a tourist attraction, but it has much to offer the visitor (including the county show in June). The cathedral, for example, has an interior that combine 18th-century splendour with the best modern craftsmanship. The Museum and Art Gallery in the Strand has an enormous range of displays, including porcelain, coins, natural history, archaeology and folk exhibits, together with a collection of paintings by the important local artist Joseph Wright, while the former silk mill off Full Street, now houses the Derby Industrial Museum, devoted to the history of local mining, quarrying and manufacturing, with special emphasis on Rolls Royce. You can see the porcelain industry at first hand at the Crown Derby factory in Osmaston Road, which has a fine museum. Joseph Pickford's House in 41 Friar Gate, has recently been converted to a museum of domestic life. Derbyshire is famous for its stately homes, but none outdoes the grandeur and elegant symmetry of K...

THE Queen is to visit Derby city's Cathedral on April 1st to distribute Maundy Money. This traditional ceremony, dating back to King John in 1210, will be held on Maundy Thursday – which commemorates the Last Supper – during Easter week. Maunday Thursday is followed by Good Friday. ( ThisisDerbyshire.co.uk ) The name 'Maundy' is derived from the Latin word “mandatum”, meaning a commandment. Jesus Christ, at the Last Supper, commanded: 'And now I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.' John 15:12 The monarch of England had to wash poor's feet and kiss them, you may wonder how the England Kings could stand the poor's smelly feet, don't worry of course, the feet were first washed by Yeoman of the Laundry before the monarch had to "wash" them again. Since 1689 this tradition was replaced by giving out Maundy Money to pensioners. Maundy coins are specially minted for the occasion are ...

As part of Derby’s seasonal celebrations, the city’s Market Place will play host to a Christmas Playground from 7th December until 6th January. Unique to Derby the ‘Christmas Playground’ will feature giant wooden toy sculptures which will provide a play area for visitors to the city centre seeking a rest from Christmas shopping. Children will be encouraged to climb aboard the giant toys – carved by local wood sculptor Andrew Frost – and let their imagination run wild. Children are invited to play an active role through workshops at QUAD, Derby’s centre for art and film, they will be able to get involved in competitions and activities such as ‘Colour the soldier’, ‘Name the bear’ and making wooden decorations for the Christmas tree in The Market Place. Andrew Frost is the artist or 'chief elf' who has been comissioned to make the wooden toys for the Christmas Playground. He is a Derbyshire based wood sculptor. Previously a fine artist, Countryside Ranger and Forester, An...

Ah! what is he, whose haggard eye, Scarce dares to meet the morning ray Who trembling, would, but cannot fly From man, and from the busy day. Mark how his lip is fever'd o'er, Behold his cheek, how deathly is eappears! See how his blood-shot eye-balls pour A burning torrent of unpitied tears! Now watch the varying gesture, wild, See how his tortur'd bosom heaves! Behold, misfortune's wayward child, For whom no kindred nature grieves. Dispis'd, suspected, ruined, lost! His fortun, health, and reputation flown; On mis'ry's stormy ocean tost, condemn'd to curse his fate, and curse alone! Once, were his prospects bright and gay, and independance blest his hours; His was the smooth and sunny way, Where tip-toe pleasure scatter'd flow'rs. Love bound his brow with thornless sweets, And smiling friendship fill'd his cup of joy; Now, not a firend the victim meets, for, like a wolf, he wanders to destroy...

Derby Mercury is the oldest newspaper in Derby. Publication commenced on 30 March 1732. For issue number three onwards, a woodcut masthead was printed, showing a view of the City of Derby, with an explanation of the principal buildings shown. The cover price for this weekly newspaper was six pence in 1800, each issue being four pages of five columns, as was common with newspapers of this time, as was also typical for many newspapers of its time, it circulated widely outside Derby. It: 'Advocates the interests of agriculture, commerce, manufactures, literature and the Church of England'. By 1800, the departments of the newspaper included: Friday's mail, advertisements, finance, Saturday & Sunday's mails, Tuesday's mail from the London Gazette, poetry, births, marriages, and deaths, Wednesday's mail, and, beginning in 1800, shipping news. By 1899, the departments were: public notices, local news, district news, correspondence, serial fiction, literature,...

A Christmas appeal letter from Derby Lions Club , which invites schoolchildren from across the county to donate food and drink to the needy. The campaign, which is being supported by the Derby Telegraph, and was officially launched at a ceremony at the Derby Telegraph's offices in Meadow Road, Derby Mayor Sean Marshall attended the ceremony. Derby Lions has been running Christmas collections for more than 20 years and, 10 years ago, the group first decided to invite schools to join the appeal. Dear Parent, Your Child's school has given us permission to ask you to support our Annual Christmas Appeal for the Needy and Lonely. May we kindly ask you to send a Tin of Food or a Packet of Non-perishable Food or Drink that will be included in our Parcels which will be distributed week commencing 30th November. Your Children's School will be mentioned in the Derby Telegraph and we extend our thanks for your anticipated support. Barbara Edmuns Derby Lions Club President...

'... a marry, mad-cap Christmas presentation for younger children.' (Herald) Stella and Stan are waiting for Christinas. They find a mysterious parcel, which leads them to discover the Quangle Wangle who lives alone on his Crumpetty Tree. On the top of the Crumpetty Tree The Quangle Wangle sat, But his face you could not see. On account of his Beaver Hat. For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide. With ribbons and ribbons on every side! A mass of strange visitors arrive and change the Quarg Wangle's life forever....the toe-less Pobble, the Orient Calf, Mr & Mrs Canary and the Golden Grouse. Sail with them as they journey to the land where the Jumblies live, to dance by the light of the Mulberry Moon! The Christmas Quangle Wangle was written & Directed by Virginia Radcliffe, and will be presented by Derby Live in Guildhall Theatre, Derby. This is an off-the-wall, hilarious celebration and musical voyage into the wild and wonderful world of Edward Lear...

Derby Cathedral tower has been a feature of the Derby skyline since the reign of Henry VIII and was last refurbished in 1964. The clocks has been given a facelift recently, more than £2,500 was raised to buy new minute dots, Roman numerals, Arabic numbers and clock hands. Each clock face has now been hand-painted blue, with the numbers and dots made out of 24 carat gold ! Who says that churches are struggling under the economic downturn and the declining in attendance?

The Mackworth Community allotment Association, with the support of Derby Homes, have successfully gone through the first stage on an application to Community Spaces BIG Lottery funding to return the land off Greenwich Drive South to an allotment. Derby Homes will match fund the lottery grant. An information day will be held on Saturday 5 September 2009, 10am - 2pm at Prince Charles Avenue shopping precinct, in Macworth. If you have any chance to get an allotment, what will you use it for? Gardening Low cost fresh food Getting/keeping fit Community spirit Promoting healthy, affordable diets An opportunity to maintain and develop your skills?

Mackworth Estate Community Association Limited (MECA) have with the support of the local Councillors negotiated an extremely favourable lease with the City Councils Estates Department to takeover 6 Draton Avenue (next door to the Opticians) for use as a Charity Shop. All of the profits will be put back into the Community of Mackworth Estate for such things as the sports activities and to help some of the other voluntary groups that exist on the Estate. The shop will accept any decent items of clothing or brick-a-brac donated, but cannot accept underwear or electrical goods because of Health & Safety issues. No bags are to be left outside of the shop due to Health and Safety issues with Derby City Council.

The super new Big Lottery funded library in Mackworth is due to open in March next year. It's free to join, free to borrow books and magazines and it's free to use a computer. Beatthe credit crunch, join the library! Books will always be at the heart of a library and Mackworth's fabulous new library will have around 10,000, everything from Jamie Oliver to Oliver Twist. There will be large print books and books on tape or CD, ideal for when you've got your hands full! You can avoid charges by renewing your library books by phone or online. Modern libraries are much more than just books, Mackworth Library will have computers where you will be able to surf the net, use any of the Microsoft packages and email your friends and if you aren't confident with using computers we'll even train you. DVDs will be available to hire for a small charge and you can keep them for three nights and not just current films but also box sets and foreign films. You're never too yo...

According to the Socialist party website , the Midland TUC has called a protest on 15 August against the racist BNP's Red White and Blue 'festival' that takes place on 14-16 August near Denby Village, Derbyshire. Police in Derbyshire have imposed restrictions on protest planned against this weekend's BNP festival. Using the Public Order Act, police and Amber Valley Borough Council have put in place designated times and locations for Saturday's protest march. Last year, around 500 people protested against the event and two new groups (Amber Valley Campaign Against Racism and Fascism and Derby Campaign Against Racism and Fascism) were formed with the support of the Notts Stop the BNP (NSBNP) which played a key role in organising last year. Police arrested more than 30 protesters at the site in Denby, near Ripley, but no one was charged.

In this edition of Focus Newsletters (produced and delivered by Lib Dems), Cllr Derrick Tuplin posed beside a pile of dog mess in Humbleton Drive, showing that he "has noticed an increased amount of dog mess on pavements and verges"; he also examined "a damaged bin in Pimlico", which give "responsible dog owners", I think,  an excellent excuse not to clear up after their dogs, because they "have been frustrated by vandals burning out the bin". Good news from Neighbourhood Forum in Mackworth, the local police were pleased to announce the lowest crime figures for 10 years. According to Wikipedia , "there are some gangs still around this area, namely CLF, the Mackworth Manz and Mackworth Mafia". I didn't know this before I move to this area, and shocked by my finding. Mackworth Forum meets in the community Centre, Prince Charles Avenue at 7 pm 21 April, 16 June, 18 August, 20 October, and 8 December.

Miss Calder's Children, A Social History of Belper. Biography and Critique on Mondern Education, by Narvel S. Annable, Belper, 1997. In this book (page 35) Narvel Annable sympathetically and vividly describes a "notorious yet celebrated small dingy slum community called 'China'. This slum community was not far from where little Narvel lived, it was "directly over the road", near the railway line. These foul poverty stricken cottages was removed in the late 1930's to make way for the construction of the oil refinery. As a Chinese, I am quite sensitive to anything about 'China'. It's quite interesting that people in Belper called their city slum community 'China'. Narvel Annable recorded several stories from this 'China'. In that time, people from different social classes seemed never to mix up, you might find the ugly faces of snobbery everywhere. [A girl lived] at the family business in King Street, S.T, Clay Milliners and Drap...

During the Second World War, in May 1943, the Derby Evening Telegraph carried reports of several local men who had been taken prisoner by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, the first news that they were still alive. Some returned home but many did not survive the rigours of a Japanese war camp. Signaller J. E. Saunders (23), of the Royal Corps of Signals, only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Saunders of 39, Mansfield-street, Derby, is also in Taiwan Camp. He enlisted in June, 1938, and was drafted to India in July, 1939, transferred to Malaya in 1941, and taken prisoner at Singapore. There were more than 16 Japanese prisoner of war camps on the island of Taiwan (Formosa) during the Second World War, and almost 30,000 allied prisoners of war who travelled to and from the Taiwan camps or stopped here en route to Japan, Korea and Manchuria during WWII. To be a Far East Prisoner of War meant: 25% of FEPOWs captured by the Japanese were killed or died in captivity, compared with 5% of those cap...